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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. This time on June 22 at King’s Place in London, ACTIVATE’s. “15% of the UK population hasn’t experienced the Internet even once.” ” Ken. On the core.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. My 14-year-old son Jimmy had installed some new software, against my express wishes to not install random software from the Internet (still a good idea!).

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.) Causes’ About statement says, “The goal of all this is what we call “equal opportunity activism.&# First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

Do to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.&# (To read the full message, click here.) Causes’ About statement says, “The goal of all this is what we call “equal opportunity activism.&# First, let me explain what happened yesterday.

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Causes Leaves MySpace: Should We Care?

Tech Soup

My colleague Amy wrote in a Stanford Social Innovation Review column , "The debate around social media and the Internet in general as a leveling force is still heated from all sides. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that's really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment.

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NTC Day of Service 2011: The Art of Story Capture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. While volunteers were sorting donated computers and electronics , Shawn Ahmed [@ uncultured ] interviewed homeless advocate Eric Sheptock [@ ericsheptock ] about his activism for homelessness in DC. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities.

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7 Things That Social Media Will Enhance

NCE Social Media

Empowerment of niches communities and small businesses – It used to be that only in a city someone could find others with a shared interest in an area outside of popular culture. In addition, these small groups will be able to gain an increasing amount of social capital and influence if their activities become viral.